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This page gives you a quick way to find out more about online and hybrid courses offered at MiraCosta. Click any course title to learn more about the course. Many instructors add details here about expectations for the course and what students need to do to get started.

Courses listed as "Online Only" may be completed entirely online.
Courses listed as "Hybrid" will have some class activity that takes place at a designated location in addition to your online coursework. This activity may range from a few proctored exams to regular meetings on a MiraCosta campus.

Nutrition Today

This course relates scientific concepts of nutrition to the function of nutrients in basic life processes. It emphasizes individual needs; functions and sources of nutrients; current nutrition and health issues; scientific method for analysis and evaluation of nutrition information; dietary guidelines and current nutrition recommendations; digestion, absorption, and metabolism; health, fitness, and disease; nutrition in the life span; and food safety. Students evaluate their food intake using several methods, including a computer diet analysis. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for NUTR 100, NUTR 105, or NUTR 125.

Subject:NUTRCourse Number:100 Section Number:1289Units:3 Instructor:

Instructor information about this course

Learning Management System (LMS) for this course:BlackboardLMS link:https://blackboard.miracosta.eduCourse start page:Course email:eskoda@miracosta.eduOffice:4606 - Associate Faculty OfficeOffice hours:By appointment Phone:Email is the preferred communication. When you do email, be sure to identify yourself & section #.Instructor notes:The course syllabus will be available soon on BlackBoard. There are 2 required items for this class: 1: Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach Textbook, 3rd edition. Wardlaw & Smith. McGraw-Hill; 2: NutritionCalc Plus online or CD-ROM, McGraw-Hill. Requirements for this course include: • Have regular access to a computer with connection to the Internet. • Ability to submit homework in one of three formats only: doc, docx, or pdf. WORK SUBMITTED IN OTHER FORMATS WILL NOT BE GRADED. • This is a 100% online course and students must have a strong self motivation for studying and learning. • Be willing to spend up to 9 hours per week on the course, which is equivalent to 3 hours in class and 6 hours outside of class. • Have moderate experience with the Web, email, attachments, downloading, etc. • Understand and apply appropriate email etiquette. Although the course is entirely online, it is not self-paced. You complete the assignments for each week on your own time schedule within that week. Each student assignment is to be completed and submitted by the due date. If you wait until the due date to submit assignments or take exams and have technical difficulty, makeup testing or submitting late assignments is not allowed.